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New Kids on the Block: NAWIC's Block Kids Competition

By Jordan LeGras
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Every November on the first Saturday of the month, the NAWIC Philadelphia Foundation brings together 30 industry volunteers to guide more than 100 children through a hands-on construction competition and interactive trade show activities. During the competition, students in first...
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ABC 2025 Careers in Construction Awards

By Construction Executive
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CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT COMPETITION A record 34 teams of undergraduate students from colleges and universities across the country participated in this year’s CMC, with each one completing a construction-management project that involved a state-of-the-art, 30,000-square-foot gymn...
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‘It’s Just How I Live’: ABC's 2025 Craft Professional of the Year, Chris Weaver

By Maggie Murphy
June 9, 2025
When Chris Weaver first stepped onto a jobsite as an electrical apprentice fresh out of high school, he didn’t see it as just a job. He saw it as an opportunity. Over the last 21 years, that opportunity has transformed into a thriving career marked by leadership, mentorship and a...
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Going the Extra Mile: ABC’s 2025 Craft Instructor of the Year Derek Robbins

By Jordan LeGras
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For Derek Robbins, becoming an HVAC director and sheet metal instructor was never part of the plan. “Teaching kind of found me. Looking back now, that road seems like a no-brainer for me,” he says. While the road to discovering his passion for teaching was under construction for...
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Lead by Learning: ABC’s 2025 Young Professional of the Year Ray Wallace

By Grace Calengor
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“Hey, let’s roll.” This is what Sarah Wallace—a military spouse, mother of three and wife to ABC’s 2025 Young Professional of the Year, Ray Wallace—said in 2021 when she learned her family would be moving…again. The couple, who married following Wallace’s second deployment, have ...
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This All-Girl Inspired Construction Recruitment Program Is Changing Lives

By Grace Calengor
May 15, 2025
When late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was asked when there will be enough women serving on the Supreme Court, she famously responded, “When there are nine.” It seems the construction industry is beginning to feel that same way when it comes to recruiting young girls and women. It...
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Power Balance: How Lorena Carrillo Balances Her Role as Project Engineer With Her Passion for Bodybuilding

By Grace Calengor
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A Mexican American and the daughter of immigrants, Lorena Carrillo always looked up to her parents—admiring their work ethic and striving to make them proud in everything she did. But she didn’t know exactly what it was she wanted to do. Today she is a senior project engineer at...
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ABC To Host National Construction Trade Championships and Management Competition in Las Vegas on Feb. 26

By ABC
February 6, 2025
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—In a few weeks, nearly 200 of the nation’s best construction professionals in trades such as carpentry, electrical, HVAC, millwright, plumbing and welding are set to compete at the premier skilled trades contest in Las Vegas on Feb. 26 at Associated Builders a...
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What You Need to Know About the Dirt World

By Grace Calengor
December 11, 2024
The two-year-old Dirt World Summit, started in 2023 by BuildWitt and sponsored by Ariat, is taking the construction workforce by storm in all the best ways. Debuting with an attendance of 750 registrants—including exhibitors, speakers and audience members—Dirt World nearly double...
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Ready for Takeoff

By Jordan LeGras
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As parents to a 13-year-old autistic son, Jason San Souci (late-diagnosed autistic) and his wife, Nicole Corder, have been actively involved in the neurodiverse community for years. As their son, Blake, entered his teen years, the pair started thinking about his future career opp...

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